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– Employer claims man fell from scaffoldA Vryheid’s Lust family is pleading with the police to conduct a thorough investigation into the deathJaigobin Sukhdof 36-year-old Jaigobin Lakeram Sukhdeo.Sukhdeo died just before midnight at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit on Sunday. The dead man’s brother,Cheap Jerseys Supply, Mahadeo Sukhdeo, said that his brother was admitted to the hospital on Thursday last after complaining about a pain in his left side.This publication was told that since last week Monday Sukhdeo was hired by a contractor and taken to Daimond,Cheap Jerseys, East Bank Demerara,China Jerseys, to do construction work. On Thursday morning Mahadeo said a neighbour alerted him that his brother was staggering through the street and that he appeared to have been injured.“I run out to see is wha happen and I see me brother holding he one side and he tell me he want sit down…so I hold he and carry he in the yard and he beg we he say he want go to the hospital.”Mahadeo added that when they enquired from his brother what transpired he just insisted that he needed to see a doctor.“All he keep saying is if he the doctor ask wha happen to he tell them that he fall from a scaffold…but when we check to see is wha happen to he side we see a hole by he ribs and like a bone coming out.”Mahadeo said that he and his mother then rushed Mahadeo to the hospital where he was treated and subsequently admitted.Some time later Mahadeo said they were told that on Wednesday night his brother and a co-worker went to a shop in Diamond to buy rum. The man said he was told that while consuming the alcohol,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Jaigobin got up and accidentally spilled the bottle of rum.This apparently angered his boss and eventually led to an argument.“The boy who tell we this say that after the argument break out he get up and go away and the next morning he hear me brother complaining for a pain and the boy say the boss man give he three hundred dollars and tell he carry he (Jaigobin) out to the road front to catch a bus”.This publication was told that initially the man who employed Jaigobin was detained but was subsequently released on station bail.Relatives do not believe the Jaigobin’s employer that he fell from a scaffold. Relatives said they visited the area where it is believed that the incident occurred but there is no high scaffold from which the man could have fallen.Also,cheap nfl jerseys, relatives said that no effort was made to take Jaigobin to the Diamond Hospital on the night when the incident occurred. Relatives said they believe that Jaigobin was beaten.Yesterday,China Jerseys Wholesale, at the man’s home relatives and other residents expressed their concern that the matter may not be properly investigated since this is not the first time that Jaigobin’s employer assaulted him.Residents of the area also told this publication that several other residents in the Vryheid’s Lust have suffered serious assault by the man.